Integration with Active Directory Jeremy Allison Samba Team
Integration with Active Directory Jeremy Allison Samba Team
Integration with Active Directory Jeremy Allison Samba Team
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Benefits of using <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Directory</strong>•Unlike the earlier Microsoft Windows NT 4.x Domain directoryservice which used proprietary DCE/RPC calls, <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Directory</strong> isbased on standard Internet protocols.•LDAPv3 for directory lookup and updates.•Kerberos 5 for authentication (single sign on).•DNS for name resolution.•The hope was that nonMicrosoft implementations of theseprotocols could be used to serve Windows clients allowing truecompetition for providing these services.•Unfortunately this is not the case.